Sending email from solaris 9 system

UNIX Solaris
1

hi

i read threads for sending email to public mail ids like gmail.com, yahoo.com from solaris 9 system but i could not succeed.

can some body help me out.

I have tried following method for DNS config.

touch /etc/resolv.conf
vi /etc/resolv.conf 
nameserver 4.2.2.2
nameserver 218.248.240.208
cp nsswitch.dns /etc/nsswitch.conf

am able to ping public domains now..

tried sending mail using mailx

mailx aemunathan.r@gmail.com
Subject : test
test mail
EOT

output of the mailq command is as follows

n2LBwHsg010847       64 Sat Mar 21 17:28 <root@rtmssrv1.com>
                 (Deferred: Connection timed out with gmail.com)
                                         <aemunathan.r@gmail.com>

another try i made it with

/usr/lib/sendmail aemu.real@gmail.com
Subject : test
test mail
.

result is:

n2LH8jsg011156       37 Sat Mar 21 22:38 <root@rtmssrv1.com>
                 (Deferred: Connection timed out with gmail.com)
                                         <aemu.real@gmail.com>

Response from the host is:

Where am making mistakes....??/

2

Try running:
$ nslookup -query=mx

Then enter the domain you are trying to send mail to (e.g. gmail.com) you should a list of mail exchangers listed, if not then for Solaris 8 you could put a line in /etc/hosts with an alias of mailhost so that your knows what mail server to send to, not sure of Solaris 9.

If you run:
$ echo "Test Message" | mailx -v -s "test message" aemu.real@gmail.com

Then mailx will will show you it sending the mail, talking to the mailserver and to what mailserver it is talking, because of the -v for verbose.

HTH

Tony

3

hi
Am getting default server not available for the nslookup. . . ,

the sendmail.cf contains a line like this

# "Smart" relay host (may be null)
DSmailhost$?m.$m$.

Should i edit this one?

4

Looks like the DNS servers your system is using are down, if you run:

$ cat /etc/resolv.conf

and you can see 64.233.161.83 in one of the nameserver lines then that confirms it.

If 64.233.161.83 is in /etc/resolv.conf but is pingable then the DNS server process (named for Unix) is not working, if it is not pingable then perhaps the wrong IP addresses are in /etc/resolv.conf for the DNS servers?

At the moment your email is staying locally on the machine (127.0.0.1), unless /var/mail is NFS mounted from a mail server.

I'm no sendmail expert but the sendmail.cf file means that if you did know the IP address of your mailserver you could addit to your hosts file with a mailhost alias, e.g.:

1.2.3.4 mailservername mailhost

All the same you really need DNS to be working anyway!

5

Hi

The nameservers are correct.

and am reachable ..both the IPs

What is the big mistake am doing i dont know....

6

As suspected your mail is staying local to the machine hence seeing it in /var/spool/mqueue, suggest you therefore put your network's mailserver that the mail should be forwarded to into /etc/hosts with the alias of mailhost, e.g.:

10.20.30.40 mailserver.foo.bar mailhost

Restart sendmail and try again.